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IX THE COLLEGE 



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AMHERST : 
C ABTZK ATD ADAJi*. HU3TO* 






! S. T. D. 

faeside vr, Professor of Mattel and Moral 
Philosophy, and Professor of Divinity. 

Ret. EDWARD HITCHCOCK, a. m. Professor of Nat*- 
ral History amd Chemistry* 

Ret. JONAS KING >:. P :f Oriental Liter attert. 



Ret. NATHAN W. FISKE, a. m. Professor of the Greek 
Language and Literature, and Professor ef 
Bdh > Littra. 



Ret. SOLOMON PECK, a.*. Professor of the Hebrew 
Latin Languages and Literature. 



SAMUEL M. WORCESTER, A.M. Professor of Rhetoric 
amd Oratory. 

JACOB ABBOT ; jl. m. Professor of Jfatkemati's and _Y 
ral Philosophy. 

Professor of French amd f^pauirh Languages 

and Literature. 

EBENEZER S. SNELL, a. m. Tutor of Mathematics. 

BELA B. EDWARD- 3. Tutor of Languages. 



GEORGE WHITE, a. b. * Assistant in Chemistry. 



AMHERST COEIEGB. 

This institution was founded in the year 1820. It com- 
menced its operations in 1821 with forty seven students, and 
received its charter from the legislature of Massachusetts in 
1825. The number of the students during the present year is 
as follows : Seniors 24 ; Juniors 40 ; Sophomores 55 ; Fresh- 
men 51; Total 170. There are already erected two buildings 
each 100 ft. by 40, and four stories high, finished in dwelling 
rooms for the students ; and a Public Hall 100 ft. by 55, con- 
taining a chapel, & lecture rooms for instruction in the differ- 
ent departments, and spacious rooms for the accommodation 
of the Library, Cabinet, and the Philosophical and Chemical 
Apparatus. 

In consequence of the demand, which is at the present 
time made by a large portion of the public, for the means of 
an elevated and liberal education, without the necessity of de- 
voting so much time to the study of the Ancient Languages, the 
Trustees have authorized the establishment of two parallel 
courses of study ; in one of which Ancient, and in the other 
Modern Languages and Literature receive particular atten- 
tion. In the other respects the courses coincide, correspond- 
ing with the system adopted generally in the Colleges of New 
England. In those studies in which they coincide, both divi- 
sions will receive instruction in company, and they will grad- 
uate together at the termination of the four years' course. 
This system is expected to go into operation at the commence- 
ment of the ensuing collegiate year. 

The following is a plan of the studies, arranged in parallel 
columns wherever the two courses are dissimilar. The requi- 
sites for admission will be the same for all, as a knowledge of 
the elements of Greek and Latin will be of great practical im- 
portance, in the subsequent study" of the Modern Languages, 
and of Natural History. 



PREPARATORY STUDIES. 



Cicero's Select Orations, Clark's Introduction to the Making of Latin, 
Virgil. Sallust, Greek Testament. Graeca Minora. Geography, English Gram- 
mar and Arithmetic. 

At Commencement 1525, and after. Algebra will be required, and Jacob's 
Greek Reader and the Four Gospels in Greek instead of the Minora and 
Testament. 

iFrcsfjmau Sttttrie** 

Day's Algebra. 

Playfair's Euclid commenced. 

Porter's Analysis of Delivery. 



Livy, Horace commenced, and Ad- 
am's An iquities ; 
Graeca Majora commenced. 



French Language commenced. 
Book Keeping, by double entry. 
Lectures on the Philosophy of Arith- 
metic. 

A weekly Rhetorical Exercise, — Declamation or English composition. 



Playfair's Euclid concluded. 
Day's Mathematics, 2nd. 3d and 4th parts. 
Dutton's Mathematics commenced. 
Woodbridge's Geography. 
Hedge's Logic. 
Jamiesons Rhetoric. 
Chronology. 
Horace concluded, Cicero de Officii? . . French Language continued. 

and Cicero de Oratore commenced :.' Spanish Language commenced. 
Greca Majora continued. Practical Mathematics pursued more 

extensively than in the other course 
Naval and Military Tactics. 
Drawing. 



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Dutton's Mathematics concluded. 
Enfield's Philosophy. 
Webal lemiatrr. 



Cleaveland's Mineralogy. 

Locke's Botany. 

Tytler's History. 

Paley's Natural Theology. 

Paley's Evidences of Christianity. 



Cicero De Oratore concluded, and 
Tacitus ; Grseca Majora continued. 



French and Spanish Languages. 
Application of Sciences to the Arts. 
Architecture. 
Civil Engineering. 

A weekly Rhetorical Exercise. 



Senior Studies* 

Blair's Rhetoric. 

Stewart's Philosophy. 

Say's Political Economy. 

Anatomy. 

Butler's Analogy. 

Paley's Moral Philosophy. 
Hebrew or Greek, at the option of the II Modern Languages or Mathematics, at 
student. the option of the student. 

A weekly Rhetorical Exercise. 
Theological Lectures by the President. 

Courses of Lectures on the following subjects will be delivered. 
Chemistry. 
Mineralogy. 
Botany and Geology. 
Natural Philosophy. 
Rhetoric and Oratory. 
Greek Literature. English and American History and 

Literature. 
Present Political Condition of the 
World, and especially of the Amer- 
ican Continent. 



Roman Literature. 



The above outline is not intended to be a perfectly full and accurate 
statement of the studies of the New Course. Text books have not yet been, 
in all cases, determined; and the enlargement of some branches and the ad- 
dition of others will perhaps be possible, without making the New Course 
more than equivalent to the Old. It is designed that there shall be the same 
number of recitations and the same quantity of instruction in each. These 
points, it is thought, can best be determined by degrees, as the first class pro- 
ceeds through the successive stages of the course. Much instruction will be 
given by familiar lectures, which will be made the subject of critical exami- 
nations. Lectures which are specified as delivered to the students of olie 



will be attended by those of the other ; examinations in them will, 
nowever, be confined to those for whom they are specially intended. 

Attention to the Latin Language may be substituted for the Spanish, 
in the cases of individuals who desire it. 

Those students who shall evince, by their success in prosecuting the stud- 
ies of the course to which they belong, their ability to perform additional ex- 
ercises, will be permitted, upon application to the Faculty, to attend to par - 
tieular studies in the other course. 



Examinations* 

1. Of all the Classes at the close of the second Term. 

91 Of the Senior Class six weeks preceding Commencement 

3. Of the three lower Classes on the week preceding Commencement 



JJntrtic iJecformantcsu 

1. JmoR Exhibition. — at the close of the second Term. 

2. Prize Declamation, — on the evening preceding Commencement 

3. C*MitxvcisiNT. — on the fourth Wednesday of August. 



Tatatione- 

1. Four weeks from the fourth Wednesday of August. 

2. Six weeks from the fourth Wednesday of December. 

3. Three weeks from the second Wednesday of May. 



atrOTission* 

l*he examination of candidates will take place on Tuesday the day pre- 
ceding Commencement, or on Wednesday the first day of the following term 

Testimonials. The candidate for admission to College, previous to his- 
examination, must produce satisfactory evidence that he sustains a air mont 
character, and that he has completed the part of the course preparatory to 
the standing for which he is offered ; if he has been a member of another 
College, a certificate of regular dismission will also be required. 

Age. No one is admissible to the Freshman Class until he has completed 
his fourteenth year ; nor to an advanced standing without a corresponding 
increase of age. 

Payments. The amount of the first Term Bill must be paid by each stu- 
dent on his admission ; each subsequent Term Bill becomes due at the close 
of the Term for which it is assessed. If the student enters in advance, the 
usual fee for advanced standing,— eight dollars and fifty cents per term, — will 
be required; unless ansa standing shall have been obtained in another College. 



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A bond in the sum of two hundred dollars for the payment of 6ollege Bills, 
must be given within one Term after admission. The Bills of beneficiaries 
of Charitable Associations, and of other indigent pious youth preparing for 
the Gospel Ministry, are wholly or in part paid by the Fund appropriated 
to that purpose. The application however of this fund is limited by its con- 
stitution, to the assistance of those students who pursue the course in which 
the Ancient Languages are comprised. 

Laws. Each student on admission receives a copy of the Laws of Col- 
lege, and is constituted a member of College by signing a promise to con- 
form to the Laws, and the regulations of the Faculty, 



ANNUAL EXPENSES. 

College Bills, about 

Board, ' 50. 

Fuel and Light, 5. 

Washing, 5. 

Total, $100. 

There are several expenses of smaller amount, not included in the above 
statement, which vary with circumstances, so that no estimate of them can 
be made. 



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It may be proper to mention, that there is an Academy in the Village in 
which the College is established, though the two seminaries are perfectly 
disconnected. It is strictly a classical Institution, being devoted, almost ex- 
clusively, to instruction in those studies, which are preparatory to admission 
to the New-England Colleges. The Instructers are Elijah Paine, Principal ; 
Solomon Maxwell, and Story Hebard, Assistants. The Quarterly Terms 
close on the Tuesday preceding the fourth Wednesday of August, November, 
February and May, and commence a fortnight after each of said days. The 
price of Board is from one dollar, to one dollar and a quarter. The present 
number of students is eighty. 



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